David MAJOR

ABT 1680 - ____

ID Number: I49205

Notes

"* Elizabeth and Mary Major, daughters of David Major, of the
Island of Guernsey, came to Newport in 1717, bringing with them
a letter from the church "in ye Vale(?) in ye Island of
Guernsey," dated in June of that year, and united with the
Trinity Church at Newport, and having left their home on account
of domestic misunderstandings with their stepmother. Mary m.
June 9, 1730, William Dumoy, who sometime afterwards went to sea
and was never heard from. She died S.P., before May 11, 1758,
when letters of administration were issued to her nephew, Thomas
Aylsworth. David Major's estate, said to have consisted
principally of property in London, was turned into the Bank of
England, as the records show".